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Picture perception as “indirect” perception

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Nearly every student of vision since Kepler has been trying to explain the perception of the environment in terms of the perception of pictures of the environment. Our ordinary perception is supposed to be mediated by the retinal picture just as the gallery-goer’s perception is mediated by the painter’s picture. But surely this has the whole thing backwards. We have to explain the perception of the world before we can begin to talk about the special kind of perception of the world that is made possible by a picture (Gibson 1974, p.383).

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Costall, A. (1990). Picture perception as “indirect” perception. In: Landwehr, K. (eds) Ecological Perception Research, Visual Communication, and Aesthetics. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84106-4_2

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